Missing previews after FCP-Colour round trip.

Hi. Ok i'm new here too and to colour as well. I recently finished grading a sequence I sent from FCP to colour and after rendering I sent the Colour project back to FCP. However, back in FCP certain segments from the sequence that got sent back from Colour do not display in the canvas. When the playhead is over these segments in the timeline the canvas just appears blank. What's happened to these bits?

Can't think of a good reason other than these were originally nested sequences or perhaps variable speed effects?
- pi

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